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So 3 week lockdown else you’ll get dispersed by the fuzz if there’s more than two of you out.
 
It is not a 3 week lockdown!

He mentioned reviewing it in 3 weeks. Probably because thats the sort of time you need to see quite how well the measures are working (although there should be some indicators that start earlier than that too, but maybe only weak signals). Nobody should automatically expect that it will end in 3 weeks.
 
It's really straightforward.

From tonight don't leave your house unless it's for the following reasons: you're a key worker and can't WFH; you need essential items - food or medication; you need to take physical exercise.
Will be reviewed in three week's time.
 
I am a key worker and can't work from home so I shall really very much enjoy walking to work now knowing I won't be faced with pavements full of coughers. Mind I think I've already had it. I'm assuming buses won't be running or very infrequently.
 
Nothing on construction - I’m a key worker with no choice but a lengthy tube journey twice a day, fully expect to see the builders out in force in the morning - not their fault - until all non-essential sites are closed what are they expected to do?
 
It is not a 3 week lockdown!

He mentioned reviewing it in 3 weeks. Probably because thats the sort of time you need to see quite how well the measures are working (although there should be some indicators that start earlier than that too, but maybe only weak signals). Nobody should automatically expect that it will end in 3 weeks.

No, there may be amended plans in 3 weeks, or a tentative schedule for them.

I really need an office chair for my back, wonder whether that comes under "essential items"...
 
Nothing on construction - I’m a key worker with no choice but a lengthy tube journey twice a day, fully expect to see the builders out in force in the morning - not their fault - until all non-essential sites are closed what are they expected to do?

Stay indoors and don't think about The Event.
 
Nothing on construction - I’m a key worker with no choice but a lengthy tube journey twice a day, fully expect to see the builders out in force in the morning - not their fault - until all non-essential sites are closed what are they expected to do?
Traffic is certainly down. Air traffic down. Building sites closed...that would be heaven as we suffer the lot here
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spoken of earlier..mots under review https://www.honestjohn.co.uk/news/c...monitor&utm_term=Click to read the full story
 
was told to take my pc home and see if it works on my home network,

stupidly set it up just before the Gobshite latest fucking speech to the nation

was messing around with stuff when the Chief office sent a email updating the latest changes in company policy due to it

Entitled "Our Prime Minister Etc Etc"

Had to fight the friggin temptation to be fired in the morning with " Our Prime minister !! i Never voted for the Cunt"
 
Surely the initial dose you receive isn't relevant, but how effectively your immune system suppresses viral reproduction once it has infected your cells? In theory you could catch a virus with one virion, and end up with a huge viral load.

I can’t answer that without starting to speculate about things I’m not qualified to talk about, however it does seem to me that if your initial viral load were just one virion, then after three days you’d expect to have far fewer viruses floating around inside you than if it had been 10,000 viruses which all arrived at the same time when your immune system had never met them before. But I am not a virologist!
 
I can’t answer that without starting to speculate about things I’m not qualified to talk about, however it does seem to me that if your initial viral load were just one virion, then after three days you’d expect to have far fewer viruses floating around inside you than if it had been 10,000 viruses which all arrived at the same time when your immune system had never met them before. But I am not a virologist!

This is basically correct. The early phases of an infection can be thought of as akin to an arms race, whereby the virus is trying to reproduce as fast as possible and the immune system is trying to gear up its specialist troops to meet the threat, relying on its generalists to keep the virus numbers under control under the specialists arrive. If there are too many to begin with the first line immune system will be overwhelmed and by the time the second line arrives it will be hopelessly outnumbered. It may then have to try the tactical nukes, but unfortunately the battleground is your body, and the collateral damage possibly fatally high.

Very roughly analogised. But yes initial infection load does make a difference.
 
I made a thread for this kind of s stuff, we can quarantine it away from the more sane and sensible stuff.


Thanks, I was looking a for a thread like that. Quick update - it turns out I didn't persuade this guy of anything. He's still going on about it. :facepalm:
 
Apparently my loss of appetite during this might be a good thing cos I will probably have lost some weight :facepalm::rolleyes: I'll not name the source of this but suffice to say it's a pretty wrong thing to say at the best of times but now, really?!?
 
It is not a 3 week lockdown!

He mentioned reviewing it in 3 weeks. Probably because thats the sort of time you need to see quite how well the measures are working (although there should be some indicators that start earlier than that too, but maybe only weak signals). Nobody should automatically expect that it will end in 3 weeks.

indeed. It's what happened in Poland. Lock down started on 14th with the schools, universities, cinemas, theatres and gyms already being pretty much closed before then, with a review in two weeks. A week later they said expect this to be "under control" by April 10th. And what they mean by "under control" is the true picture of infection as of two weeks after the time of lock down.

And guys, when lockdown was announced we had around 50 cases officially diagnosed.

Next week we will see the number of infected when lock down occurred, and over the two weeks after we'll see the efficiency of Polish lock down, hopefully a drop in growth of infection.

So April 10th to see what lockdown has achieved.

If I were the UK I'd be expecting the same or even longer looking at the general behaviour of the nation.

We don't actually have any personal "laws" or "curfews" or whatever. The police can't arrest you for being out in a group. That's because everyone has behaved themselves and no one wants to be known as "that cunt" in the community. People here are still very concious of what others think about you, so I think that's a motivating factor. Plus no one actually wants to get sick - Poles in general tend towards hyperchondia (as do I), and also the Poles really care for their families. 2 weeks before lock down was announced I was warning people that I travel a lot on public transport (I teach in businesses and travel to by bus and tram to my classes), and people were asking me if I'd been to Italy or had met anyone who had been to Italy.

When the new semester started there was a woman who had been to Italy about to start, and the class asked the school not to allow her to start until she had quarantined herself for two weeks. This was 4 WEEKS AGO.

I thought it was a bit harsh, but in hindsight it seemed the paranoia of the students was a good thing. They are really clued up here.

So UK, expect 3 weeks lockdown and THEN some.
 
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And I haven't left the house for 10 days. It's so fucking dry. Boring as hell.

I'll continue to do it until I can' psychologically bare it and then go for a run.
 
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